BYD battery tech: Will we soon be able to charge electric cars in minutes?
How quickly can a public charging station fill up an electric car? Ralf Hahn/Getty Images…
How Beekeeper optimized user personalization with Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten by Mike Koźmiński from Beekeeper. Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly, making it difficult for organizations to select the best model for each specific use case, optimize prompts for quality and cost, adapt to changing model capabilities, and personalize responses for different users. Choosing the “right” LLM and prompt isn’t…
Exploring the New Security Risks of Interconnected IoT at CES 2026
Attending CES over the last several years has provided me with a valuable opportunity to observe how rapidly IoT technology continues to evolve across consumer and enterprise domains. This was my fourth year attending CES and I have seen a continued growth and advancement across multiple technology categories, from mobile devices and wearables, to AI-driven…
X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the changes, the chatbot is still being used to create “undressing” sexualized images on the platform. On Friday morning, the Grok account on X started responding to…
Trump Administration Drops Medicaid Vaccine Reporting Requirements
In a letter to state health officials last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the removal of immunization measures from the Child Core Set and Adult Core Set. These “Core Sets” measure health care performance annually, with the goal of improving the health of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Filling in the Gap in Federal Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood: State Responses
In a policy action long sought after by abortion opponents, the federal government now has codified a ban on Medicaid funds that support care provided at Planned Parenthood clinics and other locations. Section 71113 of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law, prevents Medicaid payments to certain reproductive health care entities that provide abortion care for one year from the date of enactment. This ban includes all services including contraceptive care,…
Healthy living tips from the Gladiators
Athena, Electro, Dynamite and Giant share their top tips to stay fit and healthy. Source link
The New Federal Vaccine Schedule for Children: What Changed and What Are the Implications?
As widely expected, and following a recent Presidential memorandum, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a memo on January 5, 2026 implementing major changes to the government’s recommended vaccination schedule for children, adding to other changes previously made in 2025. Collectively, these changes reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children…
Doctors strike called off in Scotland as union backs latest pay deal
Getty Images The British Medical Association union is recommending members accept a ew pay deal Scotland’s resident doctors have called off a planned four-day strike over pay. They had been set to go on the first national walkout staged by NHS workers on Tuesday, having accused ministers of going back on promises over pay. But…
How to make AI that’s good for people
For a field that was not well known outside of academia a decade ago, artificial intelligence has grown dizzyingly fast. Tech companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing are betting everything on it, venture capitalists are pouring billions into research and development, and start-ups are being created on what seems like a daily basis. If our…
What our quantum computing milestone means
Today, Nature published its 150th anniversary issue with the news that Google’s team of researchers have achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy. It’s a term of art that means we’ve used a quantum computer to solve a problem that would take a classical computer an impractically long amount of time….
